Film Studies Programme

The course outline and info on Film Studies modules can be found below. For further details regarding the Film Studies undergraduate programme including guidelines, regulations and procedures please check the Programme Handbook available for download here.

 

Graduate Attributes for Film Studies

The table  sets out the pattern of courses that make up the Keele Undergraduate Film Studies degree. (navigate via the module codes for further information)

Not all courses will run every year, and some courses will run in different semesters to those advertised here.

FILM STUDIES MODULES 2013-2014

Level One Structure

 

AUTUMN SEMESTER

SPRING SEMESTER

Programme Core Module:
FIL-10001 : Reading Film

Programme Core Module:
FIL-10002 : Approaches to Film

Programme Elective:

FIL-10003 : Popular British Cinema: From the 90s to the present day

ENG-10026 : Reading Literature

ENG-10028 : Telling Tales: An Introduction to Narrative Fiction

MDS-10008 : Mediated World

MDS-10009 : Digital Video

 

Programme Elective:

FIL-10004 : Introduction to European Cinema

AMS-10024 : New York, New York: An Introduction to American Culture

ENG-10027 : Becoming a Critic

MDS-10010 : Understanding Culture

MDS-10011 : The Photographic Message

Level Two Structure

AUTUMN SEMESTER

SPRING SEMESTER

Programme Core Module:

FIL-20001 : Gender and the Cinematic Gaze

Programme Core Module:

FIL-20002 : Film Genre, Narrative and the Star

Programme Electives:

FIL-20003 : French Cinema

FIL-20004 : Politics and Cinema

MDS-20024 : Teenage Dreams: Youth Subcultures in Fiction,                 

Film and Theory 

 

Programme Electives:

FIL-20005 : Science-Fiction Cinema

AMS-20061 : Alfred Hitchcock's America

ENG-20036 : Twentieth Century Novels into Films                                  

 

 Level Three Structure

 

AUTUMN SEMESTER

SPRING SEMESTER

Programme Electives:

FIL-30001 : British Society through the eyes of British Film:

1960s to the present

FIL-30005 : Parody in British Film and Television

ENG-30070 : Shakespeare on Film: Adaptation and Appropriation         

 

Programme Electives:

FIL-30004 : British Women Directors

FIL-30006 : Representing the Self, Family

and Society on Contemporary British and American Television

ENG-30053 : Postmodernism: Fiction, Film and Theory

 

FIL-30002 : DISSERTATION IN FILM STUDIES (SEMESTERS 1 AND 2)